英語(yǔ)短篇故事

　　兒童故事對(duì)于孩子人生觀和價(jià)值觀的形成有一定影響。而英語(yǔ)故事對(duì)孩子的英語(yǔ)水平和能力的鍛煉也有很大的影響。因此陽(yáng)光網(wǎng)小編給大家準(zhǔn)備了一些英語(yǔ)短篇故事，以供各位參考。

　　英語(yǔ)短篇故事篇1

　　Water Under the Sink

　　Ed came home from his errands and put the groceries into the cupboard and the refrigerator. He grabbed a flathead screwdriver and a pair of pliers from his toolbox. In the kitchen, he got down on his hands and knees and turned on the flashlight. After a couple of minutes of looking, he decided what to do. He had never opened up a disposal before, but there is a first time for everything.

　　The cylindrical disposal was about 7 inches in diameter and had a horizontal seam dividing the top half from the bottom half. The halves were held together by three screws. Ed jiggled the bottom half of the disposal; it was loose because two of the three screws were corroded. Only one screw was still doing its duty. Ed unscrewed it.

　　The bottom half of the disposal was now lying on the cabinet floor. Ed thought for sure that it would be full of months-old food, but there was no food, only a hardened, torn, useless gasket. The next day Ed went to the hardware store to buy some screws and a new gasket. The employee told him that they did not carry those gaskets and suggested that he write to the manufacturer. Ed returned home. He created his own gasket by using gasket sealant that comes in a tube. He applied the sealant, screwed the two halves back together, and crossed his fingers.

　　The next day he turned on the water and switched on the disposal. When he saw the water pouring out of the seam, Ed knew one thing: it was time to buy a new disposal. The good thing was that new disposals started at $79. The bad thing was that it would have to be installed by a plumber. Plumber rates started at about $80 an hour. Ed decided that since the disposal used a lot of energy and the world needed to use less energy, from now on he would put his scraps into the kitchen garbage bag. He reminded himself to tell everyone at work tomorrow about how he was now helping to solve the world’s energy problems.

　　英語(yǔ)短篇故事篇2

　　A boy found an eagle's egg and he put it in the nest of a prairie chicken. The eagle hatched and thought he was a chicken. He grew up doing what prairie chicken do-scratching at the dirt for food and flying short distances with a noisy fluttering of wings. It was a dreary life. Gradually the eagle grew older and bitter. One day he and his prairie chicken friend saw a beautiful bird soaring on the currents of air, high above the mountains. "Oh, I wish I could fly like that!" said the eagle. The chicken replied, "Don't give it another thought. That's the mighty eagle, the king of all birds-you could never be like him!" And the eagle didn't give it another thought. He went on cackling and complaining about life. He died thinking he was a prairie chicken. My friends, you too were born an eagle. The Creator intended you to be an eagle, so don’t listen to the prairie chickens!

　　一個(gè)小男孩發(fā)現(xiàn)了一只老鷹下的蛋，把它放進(jìn)了一只山雞的窩里。鷹被孵出來(lái)了，但他以為自己是一只山雞。漸漸的他長(zhǎng)大了，卻做著山雞所做的事---從泥土里尋找食物，做短距離的飛翔，翅膀還啪啪作響。生活非常沉悶，漸漸地鷹長(zhǎng)大了，也越來(lái)越苦惱。有一天，他和他的山雞朋友看見(jiàn)一只美麗的鳥(niǎo)在天空翱翔，飛的比山還高。 “哦，我要能飛的那么高該多好啊!”鷹說(shuō)。山雞回答說(shuō)，“不要想了，那是兇猛無(wú)比的鷹，鳥(niǎo)中之王---你不可能像他一樣!”于是鷹放棄了那個(gè)念頭。他繼續(xù)咯咯地叫，不停的抱怨生活。最后他死了，依然認(rèn)為自己是一只山雞。朋友們，你們天生就是雄鷹。造物主有意把你造就成一只雄鷹，所以不要聽(tīng)信山雞的話!

　　英語(yǔ)短篇故事篇3

　　One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmer lands and open seas.

　　They mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so 4)piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, those happy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He ducked right down to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. He did not know what the birds were or where’d they fle But all the same, he was more drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He did not envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such a marvelous beauty? He wouldn’t be thankful if only the ducks would have tolerated him among them, the poor ugly creature.

　　Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon revived. The children wanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. Then it flew to the butter-cask and down into the meal-tub and out again. Oh, just imagine what it looked like by this time. The woman screamed and tried to hit it with the tongs, and the children 9)tumbled over one another in trying to catch it, and they screamed with laughter.

　　By good luck, the door stood open and the duckling flew out among the bushes and the new fallen sno And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the duckling was in a marsh, lying among the rushes. The larks were singing, and the beautiful spring had come. Then all at once, it raised its wings and they flapped with much greater strength than before and bore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in a large garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air was scentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shores of the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a thicket. With rustling feathers, they swam lightly over the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcome by a strange melancholy.

　　“I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won’t matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, pecked by the hens, or spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.” So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers. “Kill me, oh, kill me.” said the poor creature. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death. But what did he see? Reflected in the transparent water, he saw below him his own image, but he was no longer a clumsy dark gray bird, ugly and ungainly. He was himself, a swan.

　　丑小鴨的短篇英語(yǔ)故事翻譯

　　一天晚上，當(dāng)太陽(yáng)正在美麗的霞光中落下去的時(shí)候，有一群俏麗的大鳥(niǎo)從灌木林里飛出來(lái)，小鴨素來(lái)不看到過(guò)這樣漂亮的東西。他們白得發(fā)亮，頸項(xiàng)又長(zhǎng)又柔軟。這就是天鵝。他們發(fā)出一種奇異的啼聲，發(fā)展美麗的長(zhǎng)翅膀，從酷寒的地帶飛向暖和的國(guó)度，飛向不結(jié)冰的湖上去。

　　他們飛得很高--那么高，丑小鴨不禁覺(jué)得一種無(wú)名的愉快。他在水上像一個(gè)車輪似地不停地旋轉(zhuǎn)著，同時(shí)，把自己的頸項(xiàng)高高地向他們伸著，發(fā)出一種響亮的怪叫聲，連他本人也嚇著了。啊!他再也忘不了那些美麗的鳥(niǎo)兒，那些幸福的鳥(niǎo)兒。當(dāng)他看不見(jiàn)他們的時(shí)候，就沉入水底;然而當(dāng)他再冒到水面上來(lái)的時(shí)候，卻感到非常寂寞。他不知道那些鳥(niǎo)兒的名字，也不曉得他們要飛去什么地方。不外他愛(ài)他們，仿佛他素來(lái)還不愛(ài)過(guò)什么東西似的。他并不嫉妒他們。他怎能空想有他們那樣的美麗呢?只有別的鴨兒準(zhǔn)許他跟他們生活在一起，他就已經(jīng)很快慰了--可憐的丑東西。

　　大清早，有一個(gè)農(nóng)民在這兒經(jīng)過(guò)。他看到了這只小鴨，就走從前用木屐把冰塊錘破，而后把它抱回家，送給他的妻子。它這時(shí)才促地恢復(fù)了知覺(jué)。小孩子們都想跟它玩，不過(guò)小鴨以為他們想要侵害他。他一害怕就跳到牛奶盤里去了，把牛奶濺得滿屋子都是。女人驚叫起來(lái)，拍著雙手。這么一來(lái)，小鴨就飛到黃油盆里去了，而后飛進(jìn)面粉桶里去了，最后才爬出來(lái)。這時(shí)它的樣子才丟臉呢!女人尖聲地叫起來(lái)，拿著火鉗要打它。小孩們擠做一團(tuán)，想抓住這小鴨。他們又是笑，又是叫!

　　幸好大門是開(kāi)著的.。他鉆進(jìn)灌木林中新下的雪里面去。他躺在那里，徹底地筋疲力盡。要是只講他在這寒冬所受到困苦跟災(zāi)禍，那么這個(gè)故事也就太悲慘了。當(dāng)太陽(yáng)又開(kāi)始溫暖地照著的時(shí)候，他正躺在沼澤地的蘆葦里。百靈鳥(niǎo)唱起歌來(lái)了--美麗的春天已經(jīng)來(lái)了。忽然間他舉起翅膀：翅膀拍起來(lái)比以前有力得多，立刻就把他托起來(lái)飛走了。別人不知鬼不覺(jué)地已經(jīng)飛進(jìn)了一座大花園。這兒蘋果樹(shù)開(kāi)滿了花;空氣里飄著丁香怡人的香氣，一根長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的枝條垂到彎彎曲曲的湖岸邊。啊，這兒充滿了醉人的初春的氣息!三只美麗的白天鵝從樹(shù)蔭里始終游到他面前來(lái)。他們沉甸甸地浮在水上，羽毛發(fā)出颼颼的響聲。小鴨認(rèn)出這些高尚的鳥(niǎo)兒，于是心里感到一種說(shuō)不出的難過(guò)。

　　“我要飛向他們，飛向這些高貴的鳥(niǎo)兒!可是他們會(huì)把我劈碎的，因?yàn)槲沂沁@樣丑，居然敢瀕臨他們。不過(guò)這沒(méi)有什么關(guān)系!被他們殺死，要比被鴨子咬、被雞群啄，被照管養(yǎng)雞場(chǎng)的那個(gè)女傭人踢跟在冬天受苦好得多!”于是他飛到水里，向這些高貴優(yōu)雅的天鵝游去：這些動(dòng)物看到他，立即就豎起羽毛向他游來(lái)。“請(qǐng)你們弄去世我吧!”這只可憐的家伙說(shuō)。他把頭低低地垂到水上，只等待著逝世。然而他在這清澈的水上看到了什么呢?他看到了自己的倒影。但那不再是一只粗笨的、深灰色的、又丑又令人討厭的鴨子，而卻是--一只天鵝!

　　丑小鴨就像我們很想擺脫的不完美的自己，可是，生活中有幾人有那么大的毅力和忍受力去承受蛻變成天鵝的煎熬呢。短篇英語(yǔ)故事帶您向丑小鴨一樣，堅(jiān)定自己的夢(mèng)想，永不放棄，因?yàn)�，這個(gè)世界有很多個(gè)丑小鴨，卻變成天鵝的丑小鴨沒(méi)幾個(gè)。加油，伙伴們。